Good Eats

Brown requires members of the show's crew to appear on screen at some point--at least in minimal roles. There are several characters that are supposedly part of his family, though most are actors. The most frequently appearing family members are Brown's sister Marsha, played by actress Merrilyn Crouch, and Marsha's son Elton, played by John Herina. Alton is occasionally plagued by his alter-ego brother, B. A., whom he also plays. Steve Rooney was the show's Executive chef in the first seasons, and has had the most varied characters. His more ...

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W is the twenty-third letter of the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English is double-u. The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this <uu> digraph that the modern name "double U" comes. This digraph was not extensively used, the sound usually being represented instead by the runic wynn (Ƿ), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 ...

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Whiskey represents the letter W in the NATO phonetic alphabet. In international Morse code the letter W is DitDahDah: · - - In Braille the letter W is represented as ⠺ (in Unicode), the dot pattern: .X XX .X W - Computing. In Unicode the capital W is codepoint U+0057 and the lowercase w is U+0077. The ASCII code for capital W is 87 and for lowercase w is 119; or in binary 01010111 and 01110111, correspondingly. The EBCDIC code ...

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The pilot for Good Eats first aired on the Chicago, Illinois PBS member station WTTW-TV in July 1998. The show was picked up by the Food Network in July 1999, and as of 2005, new episodes are still airing on that network. A self-professed nerd, he has quickly warmed the hearts of food lovers and nerd lovers alike. Brown seems to take particular delight in making tongue-in-cheek references to pop culture in his episodes such as an episode on hamburgers in which Brown lectures an actor dressed as cartoon character Wimpy (al ...

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At the beginning of the show, after the challenger chef is introduced, the Chairman would announce their Iron Chef opponent, unlike Iron Chef or Iron Chef USA, where chefs supposedly had the freedom to choose their opponent. (In reality, in all three incarnations the matchups are determined well in advance.) Afterwards, a theme ingredient is revealed, and the cooking begins. Unlike Iron Chef, where chefs had upwards of 5 minutes to discuss their strategy before the battle begins, the revealing of the theme ingredi ...

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The story behind Iron Chef was that an eccentric gourmet authority (Chairman Kaga) had specially constructed a cooking arena called "Kitchen Stadium" in his castle where visiting chefs would compete against his Gourmet Academy, led by his three (later four) Iron Chefs. Chairman Kaga is a show piece in flamboyant, heavily decorated coats and jackets. On each show, a challenger, typically a famous chef from Japan or elsewhere, is pitted against one of the Iron Chefs (with each Iron Chef specializing in a different kind of cuisine ...

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MacGuffin - Film. One particularly famous early movie example of a MacGuffin is the titular statuette in The Maltese Falcon. Roger Ebert defines the term in his commentary track for Casablanca, where he points out that the "letters of transit"[2] in the film are a MacGuffin. Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir classic, Chinatown uses a MacGuffin in the form of the fake Mrs. Mulwray who drives the plot but ultimately bears little influence in the grand scheme of things. A ...

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The belief that searing meat "seals in the juices" is widespread and still often repeated. This theory was first put forth forward by Justus von Liebig, a German chemist and food scientist, around 1850[1]. The notion was embraced by contemporary cooks and authors including Auguste Escoffier. Simple experimentation can test the theory: cook two similar cuts of meat, searing one first and not the other. Weigh the end results to see which loses more ...

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The stage setting for the show, "Kitchen Stadium" (キッチンスタジアム), the high-quality (and sometimes very expensive) ingredients used in the cooking battles, and Kaga's extravagant costumes required the show to have a budget far higher than that of most other cooking shows. Some statistics: 893 portions of foie gras, 54 sea breams, 827 Ise shrimp, 964 matsutake mushrooms, 4,593 eggs, 1,489 truffles, 4,651 grams of caviar, and 84 pieces of shark fin were used during the show, bringing the total grocery bill to ¥843,354,407 (or ab ...

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Iron Chef, Iron Chef - Format, Iron Chef - List of Iron Chefs, Iron Chef - Notable challengers, Iron Chef - Notable judges, Iron Chef - Show staff, Iron Chef - Broadcast history, Iron Chef - 10 Best Dishes, Iron Chef - Iron Chef in pop culture, Iron Chef - Related shows, Iron Chef - Footnotes

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Iron Chef America first aired as a special titled Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters. Unlike Iron Chef USA, Iron Chef America quickly earned legitimacy with the appearance of Iron Chefs Hiroyuki Sakai and Masaharu Morimoto (with Chen Kenichi also originally slated to appear, but did not appear due to a scheduling conflict), as well as the appointment of Bobby Flay as one of the American Iron Chefs. The inclusion of Flay was a controversial one in the fact that Flay was hated by many Iron Chef fans - one which dated back to 2000, when Flay was a challenger. Ironically, the idea behind reviving < ...

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Iron Chef America's version of Kitchen Stadium looks much more modernized than the one from Iron Chef. In an Iron Chef America "Behind the Scenes" special, Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai voices his distaste for the modern look of the American Kitchen Stadium. When comparing it with the Japanese Kitchen Stadium, the American version looks much more industrialized with its stainless st ...

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Diehard fans note that a given show will be greatly influenced by the lineup of judges, which changes from show to show. A list of some of the more memorable judges includes: (Please note that these names are not in the traditional Japanese style [i.e. family name first] but have been written in standard European style [i.e. family name last].) Akebono, yokozuna Jackie Chan, actor, director, martial artist Asako Kishi, aka the "East German Judge", a food critic and nutritionist Shinichiro Kurimo ...

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Iron Chef, Iron Chef - Format, Iron Chef - List of Iron Chefs, Iron Chef - Notable challengers, Iron Chef - Notable judges, Iron Chef - Show staff, Iron Chef - Broadcast history, Iron Chef - 10 Best Dishes, Iron Chef - Iron Chef in pop culture, Iron Chef - Related shows, Iron Chef - Footnotes

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On this version of Iron Chef, the Iron Chefs have either been previous Food Network personalities or, in the case of Masaharu Morimoto, were part of the original Iron Chef. They are: Mario Batali, an Italian cuisine specialist Cat Cora, a Greek and Aegean cuisine specialist, also the first female Iron Chef Bobby Flay, a Southwestern cuisine specialist and former Iron Chef challenger Masaharu Morimoto, a neo-Japanese cuisine chef, and the third Iron Chef Japanese on Iron Chef Wolfgang Puck, a che ...

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Currently, Alton Brown lives in Marietta, Georgia with his wife DeAnna, daughter Zoey, a basset hound dog Matilda, and an iguana. A few members of his extended family have appeared in Good Eats (such as his grandmother, Ma Mae, and daughter, Zoey), but most of his "family" portrayed on the series is made up of actors and the show's production crew. Brown loves apples — not only the fruit, but also the computer company, Apple, as he was interviewed by Macworld magazine. Additionally, Brown frequently features Apple ...

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Certain challengers have made repeat appearances, or have been particularly memorable. (Please note that Japanese names are not in the traditional Japanese style [i.e. family name first] but have been written in standard European style [i.e. family name last].) Alain Passard (Episodes 204 & 297) - Three star French chef and owner of L’Arpege, located in Paris. Ties Iron Chef Koumei Nokamura in the 1997 World Cup championship and was the final challenger in Kitchen Stadium, losing to Iron Chef Hiroyuki Sakai in the f ...

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Iron Chef, Iron Chef - Format, Iron Chef - List of Iron Chefs, Iron Chef - Notable challengers, Iron Chef - Notable judges, Iron Chef - Show staff, Iron Chef - Broadcast history, Iron Chef - 10 Best Dishes, Iron Chef - Iron Chef in pop culture, Iron Chef - Related shows, Iron Chef - Footnotes

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The U.S. UPN network presented two one-hour episodes of Iron Chef USA hosted by William Shatner around Christmas 2001. These shows were not a success. This may be because the show focused little on cooking—a major part of the Japanese program. The show had a small audience section in bleachers. The audience yelled relentlessly during the show (sounding much like a sports audience), Shatner walked around the kitchen sampling the more expensive items, the chefs refused to say what they were doing, and the ...

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Iron Chef, Iron Chef - Format, Iron Chef - List of Iron Chefs, Iron Chef - Notable challengers, Iron Chef - Notable judges, Iron Chef - Show staff, Iron Chef - Broadcast history, Iron Chef - 10 Best Dishes, Iron Chef - Iron Chef in pop culture, Iron Chef - Related shows, Iron Chef - Footnotes

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In 2004, Brown appeared on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters, the second attempt to adapt the Japanese cooking show Iron Chef to American television (a previous adaptation featured William Shatner and was not well received). Brown served as the expert commentator, a modified version of the role played by Dr. Yukio Hattori in the original show. The show was extended with ten new episodes, advertised as both "N ...

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The uranium hidden in wine bottles in Notorious is a MacGuffin: it is the reason the story takes place, serving to advance the plot. The story could just as easily have used diamonds (which were proposed as an alternative during production [1]), gold or rare wine. One of Hitchcock's most memorable MacGuffins is the one used in North by Northwest. In this movie, the MacGuffin is the unspecified secret information known by a man for whom Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken. Thornhill spends the course of the movie try ...

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